This article is about the television play. For the musical, see Bar Mitzvah Boy (musical).
1st episode of the 7th series of Play for Today
"Bar Mitzvah Boy"
Play for Today episode
Episode no.
Series 7 Episode 1
Directed by
Michael Tuchner
Written by
Jack Rosenthal
Produced by
Graeme MacDonald
Original air date
September 14, 1976 (1976-09-14)
Episode chronology
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"Bar Mitzvah Boy" is the first episode of the seventh season of the BBC anthology series Play for Today. The television play was originally broadcast on 14 September 1976. It was written by Jack Rosenthal, directed by Michael Tuchner and produced by Graeme MacDonald.
Starring Jeremy Steyn, Kim Clifford, Mark Herman, Adrienne Posta, Maria Charles, Pamela Manson, Bernard Spear and Cyril Shaps, the play tells the story of a young Jewish boy, Eliott Green (Steyn), in a lower-middle class family living in suburban North East London of the 1970s, and the apprehensions the boy feels over his forthcoming Bar Mitzvah. Meanwhile, the family prepares for the celebration, preoccupied with their own preparations for the bar mitzvah.
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